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How Can I Fix Windows Explorer?

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UXD@somewhere.com

Flightless Bird
Windows Explorer is taking EONS (well, minutes - many, many minutes)
to figure out the navigation tree every time a new Explorer window is
opened. This means I can't do anything in that window until it
resolves its problem. This happened all of a sudden yesterday when I
returned from work and turned the computer on.

It's a Gateway One with 64-bit Windows 7 Professional.

Any insights on where to look to fix the problem would be appreciated.

Thanks,
- Paul
 
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UXD@somewhere.com

Flightless Bird
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:07:16 -0400, UXD@somewhere.com wrote:

>Windows Explorer is taking EONS (well, minutes - many, many minutes)
>to figure out the navigation tree every time a new Explorer window is
>opened. This means I can't do anything in that window until it
>resolves its problem. This happened all of a sudden yesterday when I
>returned from work and turned the computer on.
>
>It's a Gateway One with 64-bit Windows 7 Professional.
>
>Any insights on where to look to fix the problem would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>- Paul


Hmmm - I left an Explorer window open when I went to bed last night
and kept the computer on. Just checked (opened a new Windows Explorer
window) and it resolved the tree in just a second. Closed both
windows, tried again, and everything's OK. Go figure.

As Emily Latella would say, "Never mind."
 
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Dave

Flightless Bird
<UXD@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 06:07:16 -0400, UXD@somewhere.com wrote:
>
>>Windows Explorer is taking EONS (well, minutes - many, many minutes)
>>to figure out the navigation tree every time a new Explorer window is
>>opened. This means I can't do anything in that window until it
>>resolves its problem. This happened all of a sudden yesterday when I
>>returned from work and turned the computer on.
>>
>>It's a Gateway One with 64-bit Windows 7 Professional.
>>
>>Any insights on where to look to fix the problem would be appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>- Paul

>
> Hmmm - I left an Explorer window open when I went to bed last night
> and kept the computer on. Just checked (opened a new Windows Explorer
> window) and it resolved the tree in just a second. Closed both
> windows, tried again, and everything's OK. Go figure.
>
> As Emily Latella would say, "Never mind."


Is it possible something was running in the background like Windows update
or a virus scanner when you had the problem?
Dave
 
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UXD@somewhere.com

Flightless Bird
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:07:02 -0500, "Dave" <dave@unknown.invalid>
wrote:

>
>Is it possible something was running in the background like Windows update
>or a virus scanner when you had the problem?
>Dave


No, it turns out the the hang-up is if the default (last configuration
used) had the Network Magic tree opened at the bottom. (Network Magic
is a nice add-on that solves a lot of local network problems
auto-"magic"-ally. It was originally from Pure Networks, but was
bought by Cisco.) Right now it seems to be having a hard time parsing
the shared folders on my wife's computer.

Anyway, by having any network related sub-trees closed, Windows
Explorer works as expected with no delays.
 
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